Rare Finds
Games the market calls rare — the ones that appeared in small numbers and stayed that way. Worth seeking out.
45 games in this room
Ultra Rare Family Computer Disk System
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros.
オールナイトニッポン スーパーマリオブラザーズ
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. (1986) is one of the rarest officially licensed Nintendo games ever produced. Create…
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Rare Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Layla
レイラ
Released by dB-SOFT in December 1986, Layla is a Japan-only Famicom action game inspired by the Dirty Pair anime. Player…
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Rare Family Computer Disk System
Otocky
オトッキー
Conceived by media artist Toshio Iwai and released for the Famicom Disk System in 1987, Otocky is one of gaming history'…
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Rare Family Computer Disk System
Ai Senshi Nicol
愛戦士ニコル
Released exclusively for the Famicom Disk System in April 1987, Ai Senshi Nicol is a Japan-only Konami action-adventure …
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Very Rare Family Computer Disk System
Kaettekita Mario Bros.
帰ってきたマリオブラザーズ
Kaettekita Mario Bros. is a 1988 FDS title released exclusively through Nintendo's Disk Writer rewrite service — never s…
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Snatcher
スナッチャー
Konami's cyberpunk adventure for the MSX2, written and designed by Hideo Kojima. It came on three floppy disks with a Ko…
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Rare Family Computer Disk System
Famicom Detective Club Part II: The Girl Who Stands Behind
ファミコン探偵倶楽部 PartII うしろに立つ少女
Famicom Detective Club Part II: The Girl Who Stands Behind is a mystery adventure game released in 1989 on the Famicom D…
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
メタルギア2 ソリッドスネーク
The true 1990 sequel Kojima made himself for the MSX2. A hit in Japan that took sixteen years to reach the rest of the w…
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Ultra Rare PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16
Magical Chase
マジカルチェイス
Magical Chase (1991) is one of the rarest and most visually stunning shooters on the PC Engine, starring Ripple the appr…
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Very Rare Family Computer (Famicom) / NES
Gimmick!
ミスター・グリム's
Released in 1992, Gimmick! is one of the most technically and musically extraordinary games ever made for the Famicom. U…
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Snatcher
スナッチャー
Snatcher for PC Engine CD-ROM² — known as the 'CD-ROMantic' edition — is the 1992 cyberpunk adventure game created by Hi…
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Very Rare Game Boy
Trip World
トリップワールド
A 1992 Game Boy platformer developed and published by Sunsoft, Trip World stars Yakopoo — a shape-shifting bunny-like cr…
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Rare Super Famicom / SNES
Live A Live
ライブ・ア・ライブ
Released in 1994, Live A Live is one of Square's most experimental RPGs — seven self-contained scenarios set across radi…
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Rare Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
Monster World IV
モンスターワールドIV
The final chapter of the Wonder Boy / Monster World saga and the only entry to feature a female protagonist, Monster Wor…
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Rare Super Famicom / SNES
Demon's Crest
魔界塔士 デモンズ・クレスト
Demon's Crest (1994) is Capcom's darkest Super Famicom game — an action platformer set in the demon world where players …
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Rare Sega Mega Drive / Genesis
Alien Soldier
エイリアンソルジャー
Alien Soldier is the 1995 Mega Drive run-and-gun developed by Treasure and published by Sega — one of the studio's most …
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Ultra Rare PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16
Sapphire: Ginga Fukei Densetsu
銀河婦警伝説サファイア
Released in November 1995 as the PC Engine's lifespan neared its end, Sapphire is simultaneously one of the most technic…
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Rare Super Famicom / SNES
Mega Man X3
ロックマンX3
Mega Man X3 (1995) is the third entry in the Mega Man X series and the last to appear on the Super Famicom / SNES. For t…
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Policenauts
ポリスノーツ
Hideo Kojima's science fiction detective story, written and directed by him, first sold on the PC-9821 in 1994. Its firs…
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Rare Sega Saturn
Shining the Holy Ark
シャイニング・ザ・ホーリィアーク
Shining the Holy Ark is the Saturn's spiritual heir to Shining in the Darkness — a first-person dungeon crawler RPG that…
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Rare ▶ Sega Saturn
Princess Crown
プリンセスクラウン
Princess Crown (1997) is the Sega Saturn action RPG that served as the creative origin of Vanillaware — the studio that …
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Rare Nintendo 64
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
がんばれゴエモン〜ネオ桃山幕府のおどり〜
Konami's beloved Goemon franchise made its N64 debut with a game unlike almost anything else in the console's library: a…
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Rare ▶ PlayStation
Tomba!
お～れ！トンバ
Created by Tokuro Fujiwara — the Capcom producer behind Mega Man, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and Bionic Commando — Tomba! is a 1…
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Very Rare Sega Saturn
Panzer Dragoon Saga
AZEL -パンツァードラグーン RPG-
Released in Japan on January 29, 1998, Panzer Dragoon Saga is the most celebrated — and most elusive — game in the Panze…
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Rare Sega Saturn
Burning Rangers
バーニングレンジャーズ
Burning Rangers (1998) is a third-person action game developed by Sonic Team for Sega Saturn, set in a future where the …
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Rare Sega Saturn
Radiant Silvergun
レイディアントシルバーガン
Released in 1998, Radiant Silvergun is widely considered one of the greatest shoot 'em ups ever made — and one of the de…
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Suikoden II
幻想水滸伝II
Released in 1998, Suikoden II is the most beloved entry in the Suikoden series and is regularly cited among the greatest…
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Rare Sega Saturn
Deep Fear
ディープフィアー
Deep Fear (1998) is Sega's survival horror answer to Resident Evil — and the final Sega Saturn game released in Europe. …
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Rare Sega Saturn
Baroque
バロック
Baroque is one of the Saturn library's most singular achievements: a roguelike first-person dungeon crawler set in a pos…
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Battle Garegga
バトルガレッガ
Released for the Sega Saturn in February 1998, Battle Garegga is the Saturn port of Raizing's 1996 arcade masterpiece — …
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Tail Concerto
テイルコンチェルト
Tail Concerto (1998) is CyberConnect's debut title — a 3D action-adventure set in a floating sky-island world populated …
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Rare ▶ PlayStation
Vib-Ribbon
ビブリボン
Vib-Ribbon is one of the most formally inventive games ever released on PlayStation. Designed by Masaya Matsuura — creat…
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Rare Sega Saturn
Dungeons & Dragons Collection
ダンジョンズ＆ドラゴンズ コレクション
Dungeons & Dragons Collection is a two-disc 1999 Sega Saturn compilation released exclusively in Japan, containing Capco…
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Rare Dreamcast
Tokyo Bus Guide
東京バス案内
Tokyo Bus Guide (1999) is one of the most quietly subversive games ever released in Japan: a bus driving simulator devel…
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Rare Dreamcast
Skies of Arcadia
エターナルアルカディア
Skies of Arcadia (2000), known in Japan as Eternal Arcadia, is a turn-based JRPG set in a world of floating continents a…
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Rare Nintendo 64
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth
罪と罰〜地球の継承者〜
Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Earth is the 2000 Nintendo 64 rail shooter developed by Treasure and published by N…
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Rare Game Boy Color
Warlocked
Warlocked
Warlocked (2000) is the only real-time strategy game ever made for the Game Boy Color — a North America-only release dev…
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Keitai Denjuu Telefang
携帯電獣テレファング
Keitai Denjuu Telefang is a monster-collecting RPG released on Game Boy Color in Japan on November 3, 2000, in two simul…
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Rare Nintendo 64
Conker's Bad Fur Day
コンカーのバッドファーデイ
Conker's Bad Fur Day is the 2001 Nintendo 64 game that began its life as an entirely different product: a family-friendl…
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Cosmic Smash
コズミックスマッシュ
Cosmic Smash (2001) is one of the rarest and most visually distinctive Dreamcast exclusives — a futuristic sports game c…
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Rare Game Boy Color
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
スターオーシャン ブルースフィア
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere is a 2001 action RPG developed by tri-Ace and published by Enix exclusively for the Game Boy Col…
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Very Rare Game Boy Color
Shantae
シャンティ
Shantae is the game that proved the Game Boy Color still had undiscovered depths three years into its lifespan. Develope…
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Ikaruga
斑鳩
Ikaruga (2002) is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up developed and self-published by Treasure, released for Dreamcast in …
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Skies of Arcadia Legends
エターナルアルカディア レジェンド
Skies of Arcadia Legends is the enhanced GameCube port of the 2000 Dreamcast JRPG, produced by Rieko Kodama (Phantasy St…
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Rare ▶ Nintendo GameCube
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
ファイアーエムブレム 蒼炎の軌跡
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is the 2005 GameCube tactical RPG developed by Intelligent Systems — the first entry in th…
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